Famous Quotes & Sayings

Morley Safer

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.

Lisa See

The greatest calling of all is to have a literary life.

John Taylor

If you do not magnify your calling, God will hold you responsible for those who you might have saved-had you done your duty.

The evacuees in Houston have been traveling for many hours to reach a safe place. They're not only exhausted, but most have been cut off from their loved ones and important contacts such as insurance companies since the hurricane struck. Just being able to make a quick call can be of great help and comfort during this uncertain time.

The European Parliament is making laughable calls on deeming the elections illegitimate.

Kaui Hart Hemmings

The entire island knows our father, Fred Hemmings, Jr. - kids, adults, surfers, the governor, grocery clerks, gang members who call our house at night and threaten to kill us as soon as they get out of jail. Fred was a world-champion surfer and is now a well-known, controversial politician.

Vali Nasr

The elections have now confirmed that Sunnis are not the majority in Iraq and that they will not call the shots.

The Energy Star program is one of the most successful public-private partnerships in history. And Sun is calling on all of our industry colleagues to join us in working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, European Union, and other partners to expand Energy Star to cover all computers, not only on desktops but in data center web servers as well.

Mike Williams

The energy from the coaches is unmatched. Everybody's working fast, and you stand out if you're not going as hard as you can . . . It's definitely a wake-up call compared to the speed we're used to going at.

George Bernard Shaw

The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.

Maajid Nawaz

The cheeky ideal I am calling for is that Muslims should be viewed as equal citizens, nothing more and nothing less.

Mark Hanson

The guys kind of jokingly call me 'the Piano Man' in my band.

The guys call it 'Pulling an A.J.,' ... Occasionally, you've got to pull an A.J. and let people know where you stand.

Bill Austin

The helicopter didn't transmit any kind of distress call that we know of.

The grief they have experienced has made them more empathetic to the grief of others. So many families are now calling me to find out how they can do something for the hurricane victims.

The improvement in underlying sales has been driven by some price investment and by 'easy' improvements in availability that you would expect in the early stages of a recovery. Indeed, it is still too early to call any major recovery.

The idea to hold a student film competition came to me about two years ago after receiving a number of calls from parents complaining about not understanding the film classification ratings, and in particular, the Parental Guidance rating.

Jennifer Hall

A lot of times the e-mails and phone calls that come in will shape how he votes on an issue.

Jules Massenet

Ah! if I could but counsel my friends to join me here, I would not hesitate to call them to me. But would they come?

Henrik Ibsen

Ah, I fancy it is just the same with most of what you call your ''emancipation.'' You have read yourself into a number of new ideas and opinions. You have got a sort of smattering of recent discoveries in various fields -- discoveries that seem to overthrow certain principles which have hitherto been held impregnable and unassailable. But all this has only been a matter of intellect, Miss West -- superficial acquisition. It has not passed into your blood.

A good scream is when you can order dinner afterwards, or call your mom. A good scream is one that has a lot of overtone, meaning that it has a lot of highs and lows in it. It has a spectrum of frequencies that is actually pleasant to listen to. Well, that's all relative.

A good scream is when you can order dinner afterwards, or call your mom.

Ah, a rash, call a dermatologist. If it's wet, keep it dry. If it's dry, keep it wet. If it's not supposed to be there, cut it off. I never could remember all that.

You watch. Then the phone calls will really start coming.

Ozzie Guillen

You want to go in your room and call your mom and start crying.

You will see that the defendant is nothing but a cold, calculated, callous murderer,

You've got to question the judgment of the person. No lawyer would have his client in the dock calling potential witnesses. It could be very suspect in the minds of the jury.

You've got to make a run and we, obviously in that third quarter only scored two points. And that's not what you call a run.

Eddie Jordan

You've got to give them (Memphis) credit. They came back with a lot more energy in the second half and they got the juice. I felt we were distracted by some of the officials' calls and we lost our focus. That was the part of the game I was disappointed in.

Nate Robinson

You've got to get used to it. He said you need a great point guard to be a great team. I just take that into consideration that he wants me to be great. They don't call me Nate the Great for nothing. I've got to live up to the name and live up to the expectations that he wants. He's hard on me and I love it.

Henry A. Kissinger

I do not stand on protocol. If you just call me Excellency, it will be okay.

Henry A. Kissinger

I don't stand on protocol. Just call me your Excellency.

Marcia Clark

And it was within the last 10 to 30 seconds of ending that call at 10:55 that you saw this six-foot, 200-pound person go into the entrance?